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14 unusual facts about Heinrich Himmler


Angora project

It belonged to Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS in Nazi Germany and head of its concentration camps.

Danevirke

Hearing of the plans, Danish archaeologist Søren Telling — aware that all archaeological investigation was under the ultimate jurisdiction of SS chief Heinrich Himmler — immediately telephoned both the head of the SS's archaeological department, Amt für Ahnenerbe ("Office for ancestral heritage"), and Himmler himself.

Gendercide

The Czech village of Lidice, as part of the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was on orders from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942.

Goncarzewy

"Gonzercewo bei Bromberg/Provinz Posen/Westpreussen" was the birth place (09.09.1893) of Margarete ("Marga") Siegroth, née Boden (daughter of an East Prussian landowner), a nurse and manager of a small clinic in Berlin, who married Heinrich Himmler in 1928 and became Mrs. Himmler.

Henry the Fowler

There are indications that Heinrich Himmler saw himself as the reincarnation of the first king of Germany.

Herman von Klempt

Among these was Project Vampir Sturm (1944, proposed by Heinrich Himmler); Project Ragna Rok (The Fatal Destiny), which resulted in the appearance of Hellboy in a church in East Bromwich, England (December 23, 1944); and, lastly, the Nazi Space Program.

Ogdru Jahad

Eventually, after years of silence and waiting, Rasputin was approached by Heinrich Himmler, head of Hitler's SS.

Ohrana

Moreover, these battalions were to be under the operative command and disposal of Reichsfuhrer of the SS, Heinrich Himmler.

Pierre Vidal-Naquet

In brief, a state-sponsored Faurisson paired with an international Faurisson and, along with all that, a Talaat-Himmler blessed, since 1943, with an official mausoleum in the country's capital.

Pustków, Podkarpackie Voivodeship

The range was visited by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler on September 28, 1943, and abandoned in the summer of 1944 ahead of the Soviet advance.

Teutonic Knights in popular culture

Heinrich Himmler tried to idealize the SS as a 20th-century incarnation of the medieval knights.

The Aryan Couple

Such is Krauzenberg's wealth and power that when he agrees to sign over his property, it is two of the most powerful men in the Nazi regime who announce they will be coming to his house to handle the paperwork – Adolf Eichmann (Steven Mackintosh) and Heinrich Himmler (Danny Webb).

Tisha B'Av

On August 2, 1941 (Av 9, AM 5701), SS commander Heinrich Himmler formally received approval from the Nazi Party for "The Final Solution".

Yvonne Oddon

Freed by the International Red Cross, she arrived back in Paris on 14 April 1945 as part of an exchange negotiated between the Red Cross and Heinrich Himmler.


Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov

To tell that NKVD is a body of mass inquisition also means to tell nothing to the point, because Gestapo also was a mass inquisition, although its chief Himmler—would not have fit a sergeant of the State Security Service.

August Frank

A letter signed by Oswald Pohl, but actually dictated by Frank, to Heinrich Himmler, which discussed the commanders of many of the concentration camps and their qualifications and recommendations for reassignments, detachments, and promotions.

Chekism

To tell that NKVD is a body of mass inquisition also tells nothing to the point, because Gestapo also was a mass inquisition, although its chief Heinrich Himmler—would not be fit to serve as a sergeant of the Soviet State Security Service.

Eduard Wagner

In late February 1943 Otto Bräutigam of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories had the opportunity to read a personal report by Wagner about a discussion with Heinrich Himmler, in which Himmler had expressed the intention to kill about 80% of the populations of France and England by special forces of the SS after the German victory.

Hermann Muhs

Against the orders of Heinrich Himmler who wanted to draw distance between the Schutzstaffel and the Church, Muhs participated in the funeral of Archbishop Karl Joseph Schulte in an SS uniform in 1941.

Jenbach

In April and May, remainders of SS-units, among them the main staff of the SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, withdrew from the quickly advancing French units commanded by Charles de Gaulle, to Tyrol, where Nazi propaganda had virtually inscenerated a "fortress in the Alps".

Karl von Eberstein

Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Eberstein (14 January 1894 in Halle – 10 February 1979 in Tegernsee) was a member of the German nobility, early member of the Nazi Party, the SA, and the SS (introducing Reinhard Heydrich to Heinrich Himmler in July 1931).

Kurt Baron von Schröder

Schroeder acted as a conduit for I.T.T. money funneled to Heinrich Himmler's SS organization in 1944, while World War II was in progress and the United States was at war with Germany.

Lethal Legion

The group consisted of Axe of Violence (a demonically-enhanced version of Lizzie Borden with an axe replacing one hand), Coldsteel (a demonically-enhanced version of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin now an 8 ft. giant with superhuman strength), Cyana (a demonically-enhanced version of Lucrezia Borgia with poisoned claws), and Zyklon (a demonically-enhanced version of Nazi official Heinrich Himmler who can belch deadly gas fumes from his mouth).

Max Heiliger

Max Heiliger was a fictional name created during the Nazi era under authority of Reichsbank president Walther Funk in a secret arrangement with leader of the Schutzstaffel Heinrich Himmler.

Mike Osborn

By May 1945, Osborn had learned that an individual bearing a stark resemblance to SS leader Heinrich Himmler, had entered an allied interrogation camp, perhaps to surrender to the Allies or seek refuge.

Natzweiler-Struthof

The collection was sanctioned by Reichsführer of the SS Heinrich Himmler, and under the direction of August Hirt with Rudolf Brandt and Wolfram Sievers, general manager of the Ahnenerbe, being responsible for procuring and preparing the corpses.

Obergruppenführer

Until 1942, it was the highest SS rank inferior only to Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler).

Potassium cyanide

A number of prominent persons were killed or committed suicide using potassium cyanide, including members of the Young Bosnia and members of the Nazi Party, such as Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, World War II era British agents (using purpose-made suicide pills), computer scientist Alan Turing, and various religious cult suicides such as by the Peoples Temple and Heaven's Gate.

Saul K. Padover

(In this capacity following a fact-finding mission to occupied Aachen he leaked the identity of the city's U.S.-appointed mayor Franz Oppenhoff, following which Heinrich Himmler ordered Oppenhoff's assassination.)

SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer

SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer was (from 1942 to 1945) the highest commissioned SS rank with the exception of Reichsführer-SS, which was a special rank held by Heinrich Himmler.